TUTORIAL WEEK 1 ROLES AND PURPOSE

OF LANGUAGE ARTS IN THE PRIMARY ESL

CLASSROOM: LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT

GROUP MEMBERS:
ABDUL RAHIM, AIMAN HAKIMI, MUHD DANIAL, MUHD HARITH
LECTURER:
MR CHAN SEONG LONG
 OVERVIEW

Language development or Linguistics Development

is a process starting early in human life. Infants start
without language, yet by 10 months, babies can
distinguish speech sounds and engage in babbling
 ROLES

• Helps in triggering ideas for the learner to learn Language

Arts interestingly. (EXAMPLE: MUSICAL CHAIR)
• Helps in the teacher plans and supports activities that allow
children to do those things one naturally does with
literature/language art (Routman, 1991)
• Helps in the Phonic development of the Children
 PURPOSE

• Tutors. They can individualize instruction, provide learning

material at a controlled pace, and record student progress.
• Tools. They aid in reading, allow students to produce and
format texts easily, facilitate revision of texts, and check
for spelling errors. They store in a compact and easily
accessible form all sorts of information that learners need,
from style sheets to encyclopedic data.
 PURPOSE

• Ways to explore language. They make the regularities, the

beauties, and the difficulties of language something that students
can examine and interact with in new ways.
• Media. They make possible new modes of communication and
"hypertexts," or "hypermedia," which allow the intermixing of
tables, charts, graphs, pictures, sounds, video, and text.
• Environments for communication. They are a new social realm
that permits new forms of meaningful communication and
reconfigures the relationships among students and teachers